The Philippine Star October 29, 2010 MANILA, Philippines – The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), the “voice for real estate”, representing over 1.1 million members in the United States and across the globe, announced its intentions to transfer the affiliation in the Philippines to the much awaited PRC-PBRES Accredited Integrated Professional Organization (AIPO) as provided [...]

Businessweek Mindanao By NELSON V. CONSTANTINO October 19, 2010 THE Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is keen to push ahead with its decision to privatize at least five state-controlled ports, including four in Mindanao as part of the Aquino administration’s strategy to allow the private sector help the government in funding infrastructure projects. The first targets [...]

By Joe Palabao BusinessWeek Mindanao October 11, 2010 GENERAL Santos City––With an estimated resource totaling to 2.4 billion metric tonnes at a grade of 0.6% copper and 0.2 grams per ton gold, the Tampakan deposit is one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the Southeast Asia-Western Pacific region. Experts say the Tampakan mine has [...]

The Philippine Star October8, 2010 The keys to happiness are actually less complicated than you think. In his much acclaimed book, The Happiness Hypothesis, Psychology Professor Jonathan Haidt lists several life conditions that ancient wisdom and research have proven to be accurate precursors to happiness and contentment. Despite what many might think, a joyful life [...]

BY JAMES KONSTANTIN GALVEZ The Manila Times October 5, 2010 THE Aquino administration plans to impose a tax on all idle agricultural properties in a bid to shore up its revenues amid a record budget deficit this year. On the sidelines of the launch of the government’s Food Supply Chain Program, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima [...]